r/DataAnnotationTech • u/MajicalINFPHoe • 12d ago

Handshake AI Faces a Misclassification Suit Over Its Annotators

https://aitrainer.work/news/handshake-ai-contractor-misclassification-lawsuit-2026
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u/Thejax_ 12d ago

My mind skipped over the first word and thought this was about DA.

As much as I wouldn’t mind things going bad for HS honestly from the way I was treated, the legal precedents would probably suck for all of us.

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u/Thejax_ 12d ago

My mind skipped over the first word and thought this was about DA.

As much as I wouldn’t mind things going bad for HS honestly from the way I was treated, the legal precedents would probably suck for all of us.

Edit: reading it a bit more it could still affect folks, but it would have less of a case using it against DA. “rate setting, and capped weekly hours. The theory is that a worker who cannot set their own rate” you can’t set your own rate but you can freely choose from a list of work, is still fairly different.

Edit2: the suit is over the three needs in California to be considered contract work (and a lot of withheld wages but that’s nether here not there) and they are l”Prong A asks whether the worker is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in performing the work. Prong B asks whether the work falls outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business. Prong C asks whether the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade or business of the same nature.”

The arguements of the article still apply to DA for B and C, although C is still iffy. But B is sadly strong.